U. S. Army Ration

Protein Grams

Fat Grams

Carbohy drates

Calories

Fresh beef..........

20 ounces

83.35

89.5

...

1180

or Mutton........

20 ounces

92.4

125.8

...

1440

or Pork..........

12 ounces

55.08

225.08

...

2187

or Bacon.........

12 ounces

31.28

210.12

...

2085

or Salt beef.......

22 ounces

88.6

142.3

...

1534

or Salt cod.......

14 ounces

63.52

1.59

...

276

or Fresh fish......

18 ounces

40.8

1.02

...

155

Flour..............

18 ounces

55.08

5.6

380.46

1850

or Bread.........

18 ounces

48.45

6.12

269.25

1355

or Hard bread....

16 ounces

65.7

5.9

330.5

1712

or Corn meal......

20 ounces

50.4

12.4

425.8

1986

Beans..............

2 2/5 oz.

15.16

1.22

40.18

240

or Rice...........

1 3/5 oz.

3.5

.18

35.55

163

or Peas...........

2 2/5 oz.

16.38

.75

41.8

246

or Hominy.......

1 3/5 oz.

3.69

.27

35.5

172

Potatoes...........

16 ounces

9.5

.45

81.7

380

or with 1/5 onions

16 ounces

8.6

.72

73.09

340

or with 3/10 canned Tomatoes...

16 ounces

8.17

.54

65.8

297

Dried fruit (average composition)......

2 ounces

1.18

1.02

33.8

147

Sugar..............

2 2/5 oz.

...

...

64.6

264

or Molasses.......

16/25 gill

..

...

41.25

198

or Cane syrup.....

16/25 gill

....

...

41.36

198

It will be noted that the divisions of the above ration afford a range of choice of nearly equivalent food values, excepting for the meat ration, in which very great variations occur. Up to the meat ration, we have very nearly the standard Chittenden diet for a person at light exercise: 60 - 80 grams of protein, 8 - 115 grams of fat and about 500 of carbohydrate, the caloric value being about 2500. By proper choice of the meat ration, according to exposure and fatigue, the diet can be regulated to meet the demands of the body although the criticism seems warranted that the total ration would then be rather liberal in protein and excessive in fat and that it would be both cheaper and more hygienic to provide a more fixed meat ration and to allow for greater variation among the cereals, legumes and sugars.

Munson suggests four tropical rations, each containing 3 ounces of dried fruit, 3 of sugar, 18 - 20 of bread or flour, 16 of potatoes or smaller quantities of other vegetables, and from 6 ounces of bacon to 14 of fresh fish. These give a range of 10 - 114 for fat, 517 - 630 for carbohydrates and 104 - 123 for proteins and have a calory range of 2950 - 3825.